#270 | MTV

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

If you're an American gen-xer or millennial, there's a better-than-decent chance you were heavily influenced by MTV growing up. Launched in the early '80s, culturally crescendoing in the '90s, and still highly-relevant into the 2000s, MTV's brand of so-called 'music television' helped define a succession of generations' musical tastes, fashion, and the wider spectrum of entertainment full-stop. Today's episode of KnockBack is dedicated to MTV through the eyes of two people born in 1973 and 1984, both loyal viewers of the network not unlike millions upon millions of their respective contemporaries. There were the music videos, yes. And they were glorious. But there's so much more to delve into, too: Programming (120 Minutes, Headbangers Ball, TRL), spin-offs (VH1, MTV2), the rise of reality television as we know it (The Real World, Road Rules), and on and on and on. We definitely wanted our MTV. Did you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback, the retro and nostalgia podcast, is brought to you by Well You.
0:04.2	If you want to learn how to support our show, go to patreon.com slash last stand media.
0:15.4	Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Knockback. My name is Colin Moriardi.
0:18.7	I'm joined as always by my brother, Diggin, Matt Pinfield, Moriardi Diggin.
0:22.0	Thank you for joining me today. How are you?
0:24.8	I have a little too much hair.
0:27.5	Actually, did Pinfield have an era where he had hair?
0:30.4	I don't think so. I don't remember him ever having hair.
0:32.4	No. He was always going for that Uncle Fester look.
0:35.2	Right. No offense.
0:36.5	Well, no. I mean, Ramon and I talk about it. He's still bouncing around,
0:38.9	but Ramon and I always talk about him that he's like a music encyclopedia of the exact
0:43.8	shit we grew up with. So like you can ask him anything about corn or some shit like that and he'll
0:49.2	you know, or POD or some shit. He just know he's just like totally encyclopedia, apparently.
0:52.8	I've always wanted that. You gotta have those guys in music.
0:56.8	It's like the Martin Scorsese or the Roger Eberts, but of music, not of film.
1:02.5	You know what I mean? Indeed. I just, you know, it's funny.
1:05.5	I was going to start with something else, but you remind me of a time
1:08.9	because I made a ball joke and I shouldn't do that.
1:11.7	Right? Because one of the only things I have going for me is I'm not losing my hair.
1:15.0	Yeah. How is this possible? By the way, that neither of them,
1:17.6	well, I don't want to say me. I mean, I think I'm doing all right.
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